Anhui Wuhu Specialty Foods
Wuhu has written records of over 2500 years, known as 'Jiangdong's First Town,' 'Wu Chu's Famous District,' and 'Wu's Tail and Chu's Head' for centuries. In modern times, it was one of the 'Four Rice Markets of Jiangnan.'
Wuhu snacks include Longyu Lao Ya Tang (Southling Old Duck Soup), Baishan (Baishan Congee Cakes), Dazhaicai (Giant River Crab), Yi Jiang Yangrou (Yijiang Lamb), Wufu Bianya (Wufu Bean Skin), Xiaolong Tangbao (Small Wulongs Tangbao), Wufu Bianya, Wufo Send Zaoliba (Wufu Send Zaoliba), Jiu Gorge Fermented Radish Paste (Jiu Gorge Fermented Radish Paste), Jicai Yuanzi (Cabbage Meatballs), Danyang Xu Shi (Danyang Crispy Persimmons), etc.
- Send Zaoliba
- Send Zaoliba, is a traditional Han Chinese snack in Hefei City, Anhui Province, and Wuhu and Mashan. It is a traditional festival food in generations such as Bazhen, Hua Lin, Wufu and Lu Jiang. Every year on December 23rd, residents make pancakes with rice flour, use bean curd, meat, vegetables, or salted vegetables as fillings, and fry them in vegetable oil to eat together, welcoming the Minor.
- Umu Tuantuan
- Umu Tuantuan, is a traditional Han Chinese snack in the Anhui region. On April 8th every year, households across the Anhui River region have the custom of eating rice balls. According to legend, this rice has a function of dispelling demons and avoiding evil.
- Gong Fu Xing Crispy Bread
- Gong Fu Xing Crispy Bread, is a famous snack in Wuhu, known for its aroma, crispness, and deliciousness, renowned throughout the Yangtze River Basin, with a history of nearly 85 years. The finished crispy bread has a yellow-like crust on both sides, inside and outside is crispy, and the shape is delicious and fragrant. The salty one has an elliptical shape with a fragrant onion and oil without being greasy, the sweet one is round and full, sweet and refreshing.
- Wuhu Hutun
- Wuhu Hutun, originated from the people of Wuhu, and later developed into a famous point in Wuhu. Hutun has its own characteristics in Wuhu, with a large filling and thin skin. Hutun is made with pork, opened meat, and preserved vegetables as fillings, and is known as 'Three Fresh' because of its three fillings. It is combined with bone broth, tofu skin silk, and egg skin silk.
- Jiu Yang Shui Zi
- Jiu Yang Shui Zi, is a unique snack in Wuhu, with a history of over 100 years. It uses high-quality white glutinous rice flour, mixed with hot water and kneaded, and formed into small circles like cotton balls. The brewed rice wine is crushed and mixed with sugar, and then put into a bowl. The cooked balls are placed in the bowl with soup.
- Southling Crispy Bread
- Southling Crispy Bread, is a specialty of Nanshui County, Anhui Province, a famous domestic product, Southling Crispy Bread was developed based on the relevant Buddhist scriptures on vegetarian food and traditional Chinese medicine food therapy, and is a natural food researched according to modern nutritional science.
- Wuhu La Wei Ya Duck
- Wuhu La Wei Ya Duck, is a traditional Anhui Wuhu (preserved duck dish), with salty and fresh flavor, rich in nutrition, delicious taste, and simple to make.
- Wuhu Bao Mai
- Wuhu Bao Mai, is one of the traditional famous points in Wuhu, with a long history. Selected from pork legs, pork oil, or leafy vegetables such as watercress or green vegetables, mixed with seasonings, and combined with rice flour and water to make fillings, then steamed into a thin skin and a thick bottom, and then wrapped in fillings to make pastries.
- Cabbage Meatballs
- Cabbage Meatballs, is a traditional Han Chinese snack in Wuhu, Anhui Province.
- Wuhu Crab Yellow Soup Bao
- Crab Yellow Soup Bao, was already famous in the early 1920s. Big restaurants in Wuhu such as 'Dongqing Tower', 'Zui Chun' and 'Yi Pin Xuan' served crab yellow soup bao. Famous pastry masters Liu Hou Fu and Huang Jia Zhi's soup bao are particularly exquisite and have become a must-have point for merchants to discuss business and entertain guests.
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